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Re: [korgpolyex] composition anyone?

2008-11-14 by Alex Drinkwater

I know this will probably sound archaic, but should we set a key for the sequence, maybe...? I m musically stupid, so I always do everything in C-Minor. Or am

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Re: composition anyone?

2008-11-14 by patrioticduo

Alex, From my memory, 177 bytes seems right. But I checked the MIDI implementation chart and my own knowledge of the code that I wrote and something seems a

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Re: [korgpolyex] composition anyone?

2008-11-14 by Alex Drinkwater

I ve just made a nice patch. Doesn t really make use of the Hawk mod, I m afraid, but it IS my all-time favourite Poly/EX-800 patch. Now to make a little

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Korg Poly-800 - Wikipedia

2008-11-13 by Atom Smasher

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korg_Poly-800 i made some changes, mostly to the Modifications section. if anyone else wants to add/change things... well...

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composition anyone?

2008-11-13 by Michael Hawkins

One idea I ve toyed with is to have each one of us contribute a patch and a sequence which we would then assemble into a composition. Anyone interested?

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Re: [korgpolyex] Well the word is...

2008-11-13 by Neil Wakeling

My clients will pay me soon - which means i ll be buying myself both kits soon. so there I m not sure its economically viable to send pizza from the UK to USA.

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Re: [korgpolyex] Well the word is...

2008-11-13 by Gordon JC Pearce MM3YEQ

... I m actually putting bread on just now, but I can always roll up some pizza dough while I m at it. Glasgow s maybe a bit far, and unless you fly up it ll

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Re: [korgpolyex] Well the word is...

2008-11-13 by Alex Drinkwater

If you re in London, I ll personally make you a pizza. It might be a funny shape, but it ll be perfectly edible... Apologies if I ve been a bit demanding in

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Re: [korgpolyex] Well the word is...

2008-11-13 by Michael Hawkins

Well then I guess I ll be me a pizza and you buy you one! I feel so much better under the picture, sample and lunch-ware license . What it is this life anyway

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Re: [korgpolyex] Well the word is...

2008-11-13 by Atom Smasher

... ============== i ve offered to pitch in for some wine, or flowers for your wife (we re all grateful not only for the time you spend on the project, but

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Well the word is...

2008-11-13 by Michael Hawkins

I can t believe that not a single one of you wanted to pitch in a single slice of pizza. I ve sold exactly 21 HAWK-800 kits and you musicians just want more. I

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Re: [korgpolyex] Re: Bug

2008-11-12 by Frequency Spectrum

yeah ive got a mk2 and when i shut down logic pro sequencer the other day it sent a large amount of data to it and dumped all the memory. still its so easy

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Re: [korgpolyex] Hawk-800 Feature Idea

2008-11-12 by Alex Drinkwater

... Ah, of course. That s why it sounds so different- hadn t realised it was a modded Poly-800.. The clip I uploaded last night was from a completely

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Re: [korgpolyex] Hawk-800 Feature Idea

2008-11-12 by David Mochen

HI Mike, speaking of that... your kit does allow to use the joystick as a value change alternative to the poly s native up/down buttons? dave ... From: Michael

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HAWK-800 - next software release

2008-11-12 by Michael Hawkins

OK, I was holding off on making this public but... The next firmware releases will contain the following (depending on resources one or more bugfixes or

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Re: [korgpolyex] Hawk-800 Feature Idea

2008-11-12 by Michael Hawkins

Ok that is a great snippet. I am assuming that you did this with the Moog Slayer mods in place - right? If not, how did you control the filter? Or were you

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Bugs, 303's and sequencers

2008-11-12 by Michael Hawkins

This email is much longer than it should be but anyway... The Original Poly-800 Bug The main reason that the nasty sequencer bug is fixed in the HAWK-800 is

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Re: [korgpolyex] Hawk-800 Feature Idea

2008-11-11 by David Mochen

Hi! I was astonished too by your mp3. I love to disguise the Poly 800 s often too characteristic soundmark by turning off the chorus, for example. Congrats!

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Re: [korgpolyex] Hawk-800 Feature Idea

2008-11-11 by Alex Drinkwater

... I haven t seen the film, but I can picture the scene now. That track is pretty-much The definitive 303 track (though there are probably some by Hardfloor

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Re: [korgpolyex] Hawk-800 Feature Idea

2008-11-11 by Gordon JC Pearce MM3YEQ

... I ve thought about it *waaaay* too much. I wrote a software clone and went crazy. There s a lesson in that for us all ;-) ... Yeah. Ultimately you need

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Re: [korgpolyex] Hawk-800 Feature Idea

2008-11-11 by Gordon JC Pearce MM3YEQ

... Yes, the decay is reduced to minimum. ... I m not sure that there *is* a resonance boost on accented notes - I don t see anything in the circuit that would

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New file uploaded to korgpolyex

2008-11-11 by korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com

Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the korgpolyex group. File : /4)

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Re: [korgpolyex] Hawk-800 Feature Idea

2008-11-11 by Atom Smasher

... =============== don t spend too much time on it, unless you really want to build a clone and/or drive yourself crazy. this is the topic of much bandwidth

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Re: [korgpolyex] Hawk-800 Feature Idea

2008-11-11 by Michael Hawkins

Alex, I wish I was less engineer and more musician! Standby for my comments on your feature request . Mike. ________________________________ From: David

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Re: [korgpolyex] Hawk-800 Feature Idea

2008-11-11 by Alex Drinkwater

... Cheers! ... I ve always loved the chorus, to be honest. I ve even grown to love the large amount of noise that suddenly appears when you turn it on

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Re: [korgpolyex] Hawk-800 Feature Idea

2008-11-11 by Alex Drinkwater

Hi. ... Ah.. I didn t know that... I thought the decay was reduced on accented notes, but I d never have twigged the attack was also slowed at the same time. I

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Re: [korgpolyex] Hawk-800 Feature Idea

2008-11-11 by Atom Smasher

... =============== why not?? -- ...atom ________________________ http://atom.smasher.org/ 762A 3B98 A3C3 96C9 C6B7 582A B88D 52E4 D9F5 7808 ... Not one

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Re: [korgpolyex] Hawk-800 Feature Idea

2008-11-11 by Atom Smasher

... ================= which is why i d say, don t try to emulate a 303, as such, with any other synth. but... if you can get everything else in place, it does

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Re: [korgpolyex] Hawk-800 Feature Idea

2008-11-11 by Alex Drinkwater

... Exactly- which is why an accent feature would be the icing on the cake for me :D Incidentally, I did manage to come quite close to this sound with my

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Re: [korgpolyex] Hawk-800 Feature Idea

2008-11-11 by Alex Drinkwater

... My thoughts exactly. Currently, you can t, however. ... I just like the idea of being able to sequence basslines on the EX-800 itself. Like the original

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Re: [korgpolyex] Hawk-800 Feature Idea

2008-11-11 by Gordon JC Pearce MM3YEQ

... Bear in mind that a real 303 also slows down the attack portion of the filter envelope when accent is on, as you increase the resonance. That s why the

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Re: [korgpolyex] Hawk-800 Feature Idea

2008-11-11 by Atom Smasher

... ======================== damn!!! i can t believe that s coming from a poly-800!!!! just add some velocity accent and you can not just emulate a 303, but

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